Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Apr 2025Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B
Qwen vision-language model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.20per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.80per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.20per million tokens
- Output
- $0.80per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.35cheaper than 68% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.80 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $9.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $90.00 |
Official Alibaba API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B yet.
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Apr 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Thinking budget
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
qwen3-vl-30b-a3bon Alibaba- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B
How much does Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B cost?
Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B costs $0.20 input / $0.80 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.35 per million tokens, cheaper than 68% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?
Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B yet.
Is Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B support?
Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B accepts text and images and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B on Apr 2025. Its training data runs to Apr 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct (NVIDIA, $0.478 / $0.504), Solar Pro 2 (Upstage, $0.25 / $0.25), Seed 1.6 Vision (ByteDance Seed, $0.119 / $1.19) and GLM-4.5-Air (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.20 / $1.10).